Megachile cypricola

Megachile cypricola is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae native to Cyprus. It was described by Mavromoustakis in 1938.

Conservation status

This species had not been observed since 1950, and was thought to perhaps be extinct, until research performed to update a list of the bees present in Cyprus found local populations of the bee. Later research revealed that while the species is rare on an island-level, it is relatively abundant locally.

All specimens collected during the re-discovery of the species were found on a native plant species, Onobrychis venosa.